A proposed ban on smoking and vaping for the 16th Street Mall isn't about public health, opponents allege, it's about creating another means to push homeless and impoverished people out of Denver's public spaces.

Medical Marijuana of Massachusetts will be the first of the state's nonprofit organizations to open a dispensary on Cape Cod, recently announcing plans to begin operation in a small, nondescript building on Echo Road in Mashpee in late December. It likely won't remain the only one in the region for…